A Chronology of Capitalism [encore]

Top: Steve Williams, co-founder of POWER. Bottom: Stanley Aronowitz, Professor, City University of New York Sources: http://therealbarackobama.wordpress.com

It’s a time of economic transition, and systems that may have seemed stable over the past few decades are proving to be far from it. But how did we get here? And how can we learn from the past, to build a more fair and just system in the future? While many politicians and pundits claim that no one saw the current economic collapse coming, in fact, we had plenty of warning, depending on who we listened to. This week, we hear from three people who’ve been sounding the alarm about capitalism’s house of cards for years, and in some cases, decades.